Meg Rosoff Quotes
Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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I'm a very spontaneous person. If someone aggravates me, I'm going to go after them. I wake up every morning, and I say, 'What bad guys should I go after today?'
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
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And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.
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We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
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My wife was a licensed psychologist by profession and a college professor of psychology.
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Strength is weakness rearranged, a rope plaited from grass.
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I wouldn't say music is my passion, or my calling, or anything like that. I mean, I don't really believe in that kind of stuff. Life is a series of chance happenings, so I just fell into it.
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While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.
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Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.
